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Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
MICHIGAN FIRES COST
A Loss of seven Millions of Dol
lars An Property.

lars An Property.
CHICAGO. May 2S.-A dispatch from
Marquette says the forest fires which
been been devastating the Northern PEN
insula of Michigan during the last fort
night, by careful estimates caused a
total loss of $7,000,000, including
81, 500, 900 caused by the destruction OF
Lake Linden. Only eight lives are posi-.
lively known to have been lost. Great
destitution prevails throughout the
burnt district.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
ADDITIONAL COAST DEFENsEs.
The Dominion sends It's Engin-
GERS to do and Perform.

OTTAWA, May 2S.--sir Adoiphe Carow
and Maior.General Middleton, will start
for British Columbia about the end of
August. The trip is undertaken for the
purpose of locating the site of the pro-
posed defenses, which are intended to be
very complete. The armament will in.
clude several eighty.ton guns, shipped
from Halifax about six months ago.
The required plans are expected to ar
rive from England shortly.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
CYCLONE AT CALCUTTA

gers Into Space.
CALCUTTA, May 2s.-A cyclone which
visited this section yesterday was very
destructive. A local steamer with seven
hundred and fifty persons on board was
caught by the cyclone and is now mis-
sing. 1t is feared that she is lost with
all on board. The district of Oriss is
completely devasted by it.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
,rhe Uaunl nniIx Fire.

WEST Berkeley, CAL, May 2S.-A
fire broke out in building Of the Giant
Powder Company this afternoon, and
two hundred tons Of explosive materials
were burned. fortunately no explosion
occurred. The loss was $4,000.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
CAR WRECKEK SENTENCED.
Over Two Years for Placing Car.
trfd es on the Track.

SAN Francisco, May 2S.-John E.
Sites has been convicted of placing a
dynamite cartridge on the tracks of the
Sutter street Railroad, and has been SEN
fenced to two years and four months in
the State Prison.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
nen,h Of Dr. RrusIe.

lone, CAL. May 2s.--Dr. Brusie, an
old pioneer and ex.member Of the Legis.
lature. died this evening, after severe
illness.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
PACIFIC MAIL ELECTION.
George Gould Declines the Presf
dcncy of the Line.

dency of the Line.
New York, May 29.-The first meet
ing of the new Board OF Directors of the
Pacific Mail was held to day. and the
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Henry Hart; Vice.President, Ed
ward Lauterbach; Secretary, w. IL.
Lane. George Gould was rendered the
Presidency, but declined it and tele'
graphed his approval of the choice al
ready made.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
ANOTHER MINE DISASTER.
Two Hundred and Txventy-Nine
Miners Imprisoned.

GLASGOW, May 28.-A terrible explo-
sion has occurred in the Udstone coal
pit at Blantyre Village, in Havarkshire,
eight miles from this city. Two hundred
and twenty miners are entombed in the
pit, and it is feared that all of them
nave perished. The shaft is blocked mp
with the debris, caused by the explosion.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
GLASGOW, May 2S.-Forty five min
ers, who were entombed, have been res
cued, and seventy. five others are yet in
the lower seam entombed and cannot
be reached. There are still seventy
other men in the middle seam who may
be reached in the course of time,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
CAN'T CONVERT THE POPE.

McGiynn Declines 10 Attehhpt III
Can't Think of Trying.
WATERBURY, May 2S.-Dr. McGlynn,
iu an interview yesterday, secuted the
idea that he could go to Rome and con.
vert the Pope to his way of thinking.
He said it would be necessary to beat
these ideas into the head of the govern
ment there, and nothing short of revo.
luton could accomplish it. Therefore
he could not think Of going.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
THE PARIS FIRE.
Seventy.five Additional Gorpses
Aec0vRref.

PARIS, May 2S.--It is officially an
nounced this afternoon that seventy. five
corpses SO far, have been recovered from
the ruins of the Opera Comique. 1t is
expected that one hundred will be
found.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-29
SAN DIEGO WEECh.
Smugg ling and Land Obsfruc-
lion Suits.


lion Suits.
SAN DIEGO, May 2S.-The steamer
City of Topeka is hard aground on the
Peninsula. All the tugs fail to move
her. The steamer is perfectly safe on a
sand bank in the harbor where she is
likely to remain for some time, as the
tides are ebbing. The blame is attached
to Capt. Rogers, for not keeping in the
channel and trying to jump over the
peninsula. The steamer is owned by
the Atchisol, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad.
THE WEATHER.
The weather is cool and delightful.
The thermometer at noon was sixty
eight.
Before United States Commissioner
Hubbard, to-day, Samuel Henry Moll
was arraigned on charge No. 2 for selling
smuggled cigars in boxes with broken
revenue stamps. The case was con-
tinued.
UNITED STATES LAND CASE.
The case of the United States against
George Weeks, Thomas Hogan and G.
L. Gabrielson, charged with obstructing
the public land by fencing with wire, is
continued till July 5th, with bail fixed
at $500 for each party.
The United States District Attorney.
J. Marion Brooks, appeared for the
prosecution.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
How to Treat Canned Goods.

1t cannot be too widely known or care
fully remembered by users of the above
that they are cooked goods. They are not
put up in vessels from which they are to
be eaten when convenient to consumers,
but are only packed in tins in order to pre-
serve them. No canned goods are guaran-
teed to keep fresh and remain sound for
any number of days after being opened.
When opened, the contents of the tin
should be Immediately turned out and
eaten as soon as possible. Ifthe food must
be kept at all, cover it up and keep in q
cool place-always, however, turn out of
the original tin. The liquor round lob
sters, salmon and all vegetables, excepting
tomatoes, it is desirable to strain off and
throw away. HOLSTERS and prawns are i'm
proved by being turned out into a sieve
and rinsed with clean cold water. Never
on any account add vinegar, sauce or any
kind of condiment to timed foods while
they are in the tins, and never leave such
mixtures to remain an hour or two, if from
forgetfulness it is done
All timed goods are put up as fresh as it
is possible to be, but unless corned or sailed,
will not keep turned out, as freshly-coolled
goods will, and certainly not longer, as
many thoughtlessly suppose or expect they
will. Sardines, if preserved in good oil,
and if of good quality, will be an excep-
tomas long as the oil is good the fish
can be kept in the tins. But seven days is
long enough to trust these before eating
Consumers should not buy larger packages
of canned goods than they can consume
quickly; if they should, most of the fish
and meats can be potted after recooking,
sauces and seasoning being used. If the
nose and eyes are properly used it is as i'm
possible to partake of an unsound tin of
canned food Of any kind as to partake of
bad meat, fish or vegetables from 4 shop
London Grocer's Chronicle.
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Cost of the Rabbit Plague.

y Melbourne correspondent of Glas-
gov paper writes: The plague Of rabbits
in the Australian colonies has no doubt
been frequently heard of by your readers,
but 1t may help to give clearer idea of
the pest when the cost of Graduating it is
stated in so many pounds sterling. From
parliamentary return made to the Victo-
rian Assembly a few evenings ago, it APP
pears that the annual outlay began eight
years ago at fl $50, and in the course of
these eight years it has now reached over
1000 for the last years. But the rabbits
are as plentiful as ever, though in some
districts they are greatly reduced in num-
Der. New South Wales is presently suf-
fering much more terribly than Victoria.
Wonderful to tell, the sum of 1880, 900
has been expended by the New South
Wales Government during the last three
years in trying to exterminate the Dummies
or at the rate of e120000 year-and
matters still look desperate 1t is with
good grounds suspected that the rabbit de-
stroyers have vested interest in spreading
the pest over wider tracts of New South
Wales. Their game is not to kill the
goose that lays the golden egg, but to let it
multiply. The vermin are Killed in hun
dreds of thousands, but the cry is "still
they come" The New South Wales Gov
eminent proposes to erect two thousand
miles of net wire fencing, inclosing twelve
million acres in the most thickly-invested
districts if the holders of pastoral leases
will agree to pay interest at the rate of
four per cent. on the cost of the rabbit
proof fencing necessary to inclose their
holdings and that as soon rs the s1hsidy
saved equals the cost of the fencing the
lessees will be relieved of all further pay
ment of interest, and the fences will be-
come their property. This proposed ex-
pertinent on a large scale shows what a
puzzling problem the prolific bunny has
set the Australian Governments.
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Sulphur for Jack Rabbits.

In some portions of Fresno county the
jack rabbits have proven serious pest dur
ing the last season, and the damage done
to newly-planted vineyards and orchards
outside the more densely settled localities
has, in some instances been a source of
encouragement to the planters. We have
heard of one planter who defeated the
army of jacks and saved his tender vines
and trees. Edward Roach, of Washington
colony, lives near the outskirts, and feel
ing that it would be hopeless undertake
ing to try and kill all the rabbits that
were swarming in from the uncultivated
plains, he concluded to make his vines I'M
palatable to the hungry but fastidious
rabbits. He then procured twenty-five
pounds of sulphur and fifty cents worth of
asafetida, dissolved both in water and
sprinkled the mixture on the foliage of his
newly-planted ten-acre vineyard. The re-
suit was all that could be desired. No a
leaf of that vineyard was nibbled after the
sulphur and asafntida treatment. This
simple receipt may be the means of saving
many hundreds of dollars to planters of
new orchards and vineyards. Its cheap
ness makes its general use practicable
Fresno Republican.
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The Right of Sanctuary.

Sanctuary was place of refuge and of
safety for offenders of various kinds. All
churches and church yards were, down to
the time of Henry VIII, invested with
this protective power. The possible stay
in sanctuary of any fugitive was strictly
limited to forty days, at the expiration of
which time he was bound to quit the Brit
lsh) realm by the nearest port assigned him
by the Coroner to whom he had reported
the circumstances Of his case. During his
journey to the seacoast for the purpose of
carrying out this self-banishment. the
claimant of sanctuary privileges was guar
anteed immunity from molestation as he
journeyed on, cross in hand. By Henry
Wis time this custom of sanctuary was
very much abused, having become the
means of shielding criminals of all kinds
from justice, and at his request Pope In
nocent VIII. made three important altera-
lions in it, First, that if man, while
enjoying the privileges of sanctuary, should
take advantage of his position to commit
some further ofiense against the laws of his
country, he should at once and forever for
felt the benefit of sanctuary. Second. that
the benefit of sanctuary should be strictly
limited to mans personal safety, and in
no degree apply to the protection of his
private property. Third, that where
treason was the motive for seeking sanctu-
airy, the King might have the offender
specially taken care of. Until the twenty
first year of James /. the custom still
obtained and criminals continued to seek
refuge in the places to which the privilege
of sanctuary was attached. At that time,
however, statute was passed abolishing
sanctuary privileges altogether.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
A MARVELLOUS MAIDSTONE.
Now Possessed by Venerable Citizen
of Mississinni.


The maidstone has been talked and
written about for generations 1t has been
pooh-poohed by scientists and discredited
by all the balance of the world who are prone
to deny to popular superstition the slightest
foundation in reason. Yet the fact remains
that such stones exist in localities of the
south, says the Memphis AraIanche, and
are devoutedly trusted as panacea for the
bite of rabid animals, by people who have
seen them applied. If seeing iustifes be-
lieying, the ruralists who pin their faith
to madstones are entitled to something
better than ridicule. OF course it is wrong
for them to care more for curing the
patient than for scientific results, but the
persons most interested will doubtless ex-
cuse them, if the doctors do not. During
the war, when medicines were not to be
had, the Southern whites were compelled
to bear witness to the efficacy of more
than one simple remedy used by the
slaves.
day or two ago Mr.. B. L. Milan. an
old and respected citizen of Waterford.
Miss, exhibited a maidstone which has a
history. 1t was brought to Alabama from
China in 1910, by DIR. William Barker,
who used it with success for several wears.
At his death it was sent to Jarvis Milan.
Milan moved to Mississippi in 1885. and
took the stone with him. He died in
1S49, and left the stone to his son. The
present proprietor has used it in $50
cases, for bites of rabid dogs, cows and
horses, besides spider and snake bites, and
he asserts that it did not fail to effect a
cure in single instance, when applied
before paroxysms had set in.
The stone is porous, of light cream
color, one and one-quarter inches in diam
eter, and weighs one ounce 1t has been
broken in five places and is mended with
silver bands. When a person is bitten the
wound is carefully washed with warm
water, mop being used to guard against
danger to the operator from infected blood
or pus. The stone is then bound tightly
upon the affected part, and left there from
two to fifteen hours, according to the fresh
ness of the bite-the older it is the longer
the time necessary. When removed it is
found to have absorbed quantity of blood
or pus from the wound. 1t is then washed
clean IN warm water and dried before fire
or stove. Mr.. Milan has been offered S.
QUO for his treasure, but refuses to SELL
lie gets good revenue from it, charging
those patients who are able to pay, but its
virtues are more frequently called into
play to save the lives of unfortunates who
have nothing to give in return. 1t is to
MIR. Milam's credit that these are never
refused, and that he values the stone most
for the good it does to suffering humanity.
lie is greatly troubled lest at his death his
children should divide it up and thus de-
stroy its virtue.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
PROTECTING Emit from Insect pe.t.

At recent horticultural meeting in
Illinois, A. C. Hammond, Secretary of the
State Horticultural Society, said, concern
ing saving his apple crop from the work
of insect pests:
have been making some experiments
in the orchard this season, one of which
has been exceedingly interesting as well
as profitable. A year ago l determined to
experiment with arsenical poisons, but the
bloom was so light that / hesitated to in
cur the expense, but concluded to trust
one orchard at least. ! therefore ordered
a Lewis combination force pump and
quantity of London purple. | took the
heads out of two fifty-gallon barrels. and
after boring a large hole in each of them
in which | kept a stick for stirring the
mixture put them in for floats l then
placed the barrels in wagon and filled
them as nearly full of water as practi-
cable-say about forty gallons in each. A
pound of London purple was thoroughly
mixed in pail of water and divided be-
tween the two borrels and stirred until
the poison was well mixed with the water.
l found that two men were needed for the
work-one TO drive and keep the pail or
tub in which the pump worked filled, the
other to Use the pump. The driver was
directed to drive very slowly along one
side of the row and, back on the other, and
the man with the pump, which throws a
fine spray fifteen or twenty feet high, to use
great caution and see that every part of
the tree was reached and so thoroughly
wet that the water would drip from the
leaves.
"The first spraying was done the lst and
I'd of June, when the apples were about as
large as half-grown cherry, but | think
it should have been done a week earlier.
Just after the blossoms had dropped. The
second application was made ten days
later.
"From these sprayed trees-about three
hundred in number gathered this sea-
son five hundred bushels of apples, f ON 60
to rs per cent of which are perfect, and IS
per cent. marketable, while from the same
number OF trees in adjoining orchards [
did not gather peck of perfect fruit.
This result was astounding to me, but as
there is not another orchard in the county
that has produced so much perfect fruit
this season, | have concluded that the
London purple save the fruit. Two years
ago this particular orchard was seeded to
clover, and this season it was neither cut
nor pastured The mulch thus formed
was of great benefit during the protracted
drought
"The pump cost Sc and l estimate the
cost of spraying at cents per tree. Next
season | shall use pound of London pur-
pie to 120 gallons of water"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19
Our Mechanical Power.

The dependence of modern industries
upon coal was thus illustrated by Sir I.
Lowthian Bell in a late address as Presi-
dent of the North of England Institute of
Mining and Mechanical Engineers: The
charcoal capable Of being grown in one
year on an acre of land would only suffice
to propel one express train over a distance
of 25 miles and for making the pig iron
annually produced in Great Britain for
est of $4,000 square miles would be re-
quired. Regarding air power, Gevons cal
culated that it would take 1000 windmills
to drive modern railmill. This would
mean lines of these engines reaching some
thing like 20 miles, all connected with the
hy-wheel shaft of the rolling machinery.
From rainfall, assuming it to be 5000 tons
of water annually to the acre, and that so
feet of fall is available for machinery.
with no loss of water, we should have a
yearly mechanical force of $4,000, 900
per acre. This according to
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Catarrhal Dangers.

To be freed from the dangers of sufocatiou
while lying down; to breathe freely, sleep
soundly and undisturbed; to rise refreshed,
head clear, brain active and free from pain OF
ache; to know that no poisonous, putrid matter
defles the breath and rots away the delicate
machinery of smell, taste and hearing: to feel
that the system does not, through its veins and
arteries, suck up the poison that is sure to IN
dermine and destroy, is indeed blessing be-
yond all other human enioyments To purchase
immunity from such fate should be the object
of all afflicted. But those who have tried many
remedies and physicians despair of relief or
cure.
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE meets every phase
OF Cstarrh, from simple head cold 10 the most
loathsome and destructive stages. 1t is local and
constitutional. Instant in relieving permanent
in curing. safe, economical and never-failing.
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE consists of one bot
tie of the RADICAL CURE, one box of CATARRHAL
SOLVENT, and one IMPROVED INHALER, all
wrapped in one package, with treatise and
directions, and sold by all druggists for 81.
POTTER DRUG & CHEMICAL Co. BOsToS
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

RAISING Hoes FOR PoRK.-The South
eTn Lace Stock journal furnishes the follow
ing hints on making pork" at the South /:
Red clover is excellent for hogs, and those
whose lands are adapted to its growth
ought TO raise it fo- this special purpose.
Fence in large hog pasture and not over
stock it. Provide plenty of water. Keep
salt and ashes where they can get them
always. Get good stock. The Berkshire
hog is good one, the Poland China is a
good one, the Essex a good one, and very
many speak IN exalted terms of the Reds.
Have your geober patches, chufa and pea
patches, and turn the hogs in them in the
fall, and they will fatten very rapidly.
Grow enough corn to feed the fattening
hogs about one month before Strengthening
for the purpose of hardening and solidify-
ing the meat. You will have to feed a
little corn during the winter, until spring.
to the breeding stock, and "the Young
thingss that will be necessary to carry over
another year. In order to save corn in
this connection you would find it profta-
bic to get a cooker and cook largely of cot
ton seed. In the morning feed seed and in
the evening corn, or corr in the morning
and seed in the evening. Cooked cotton
seed is not only cheap but a wholesome
food for hogs.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

BUTTER FUNGI.-Members of the Mi
croscopical Society of Calcutta have found
that Calcutta butter always teens with mi
croscopIc organisms when made as is Gus
tomary, and these distinguish it from fresh
butter churned directly from rich cream.
The milk of BENGAL is mostly too poor to
yield butter by the process elsewhere in
vogue, and it is therefore boiled and put
aside to set" small piece of butter or
teaspoonful of buttermilk being added to it.
In from six to twelve hours white acid
mass is formed, which is mixed with wa
ter, and churued until the butter separates.
The organisms seem to be introduced
partly by the water and partly by the stale
butter or buttermilk added 10 the boiled
milk. The micrc-fungi are probably de-
veloped from the butter or buttermilk,
which really acts as ferment, while even
diatoms and infusoria cNme from the water.
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Don't

Let that cold of yours run on. You think
1t is light thing. But it may run into
catarrh. Or into pneumonia Or con-
sumption.
Catarrh is disgusting. Pneumonia is
dangerous, Consumption is death itself.
The breathing apparatus must be kept
healthy and clear of all distractions and
offensive matter. Otherwise there is
trouble ahead.
All the diseases of these parts, head,
nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs,
can be delightfully."- and entirely cured by
the use of Boschee's German Syrup. II
you don't know this already, thousands
and thousands of people can tell you.
They have been cured by it, and know
how it is themselves" Bottle only 70
cents. Ask any druggist.
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Joule's investigations, after allowing 80
per cent. loss of power for friction in
water-wheel, would only represent 20.6
pounds of coal. But, 90 per cent. of the
power of coal escapes in its application, so
that the 5000 tons of water yearly col
lected on an acre of land would, in falling
so feet, afford in available power an equiv
alent of that obtainable from 206 pounds
of coal.
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INSECTS IN Aria wonderful land
seape on exhibition in Paris is executed in
European and foreign insects. Every de-
sired tone is supplied by $4,000 coleoptera
in the foreground, and 1000 varieties of
the insect tribe for the remainder of the
picture. The work required four years of
the artists time.
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Cured of Neuralgia.
East VIEW, WEsrcHEsTER Co

n. Y, January %, 1886.
have been great sufferer with Mains
in the back of my head-worse than any
headache. | could not reach it with in
ternal medicines at all, and during the cold
weather have suffered excrutiatingly. /
finally thought l would try an Allcock' 8
Plaster applied to the nape of my neck. In
less than half day the pain entirely
ceased. LoTTIE L. DEREAx.